. Railway maintenance engineering, with notes on construction . tracks Industrial tracks Crossings at grade, per track Railroad, main Une Railroad, sidings or yards City streets, main line City streets, sidings Village or highway, main line Village or highway, sidings Ditches, miles Insulated joints: Main or running tracks Side or passing tracks Switch and signal lamps maintained by sec-tion force Derails maintained by section force Station platform, maintained by track force, 1000 . . . . . .50 . . .
. Railway maintenance engineering, with notes on construction . tracks Industrial tracks Crossings at grade, per track Railroad, main Une Railroad, sidings or yards City streets, main line City streets, sidings Village or highway, main line Village or highway, sidings Ditches, miles Insulated joints: Main or running tracks Side or passing tracks Switch and signal lamps maintained by sec-tion force Derails maintained by section force Station platform, maintained by track force, 1000 . . . . . .50 . . . . . . 222 RAILWAY IVIAINTENANCE Other labor-saving apparatus is coming into use, as the pneu-matic tie tamper/ operated by compressed air, small cranes forhandling rails on a section, etc. In some cases contract work has been resorted to, as in puttingnew ballast or ties, with excellent results, and it may be that thismethod or a modification of it by which the men are paid bypiece work will be the final solution of the Fig. 124.—Gasoline Section Motor Car. (Buda.) In a report on contracting maintenance work by a committeeof the Roadmasters and Maintenance of Way Association* thefollowing reasons are advanced why contract work is desirable: (a) A contractor can pa}^ his men what they are woith to him.(6) A contractor always has a following of expert laborers. (c) A contractor can fortify himself against all conditions and canhave liis own boarding outfit and supply his men with better accommoda-tions than a railroad company. (d) Laborers understand that when they work for a contractor theyhave to do their part of the work or drop back to less pay or lose theirplaces entirely. Table XV presents in a general way the kind of section workdone in the different months of the year. * Bulletin, Aug. 10, 1913, p. 113. TRACK AND RIGHT OF WAY 223 TABLE XV Schedule op Section Woek Month. Kind of Section Work. December January February March first an
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